1001 Albums Summary

Brian Johnson's first album with the band and the best

One of the best Hip Hop album of all time...

This album is phenomenal. The Cure's masterpiece.

The very best of the genre. My Favorite songs are Respect and I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)

The Cars' great debut album blended new wave & rock n' roll.

An incredibly interesting piece of electronic music.

One of the best albums of the 80s.

It's a lovely album, an all time classic.

Not really my kind of music, but extremely good compositions exist at th first half.

Very influential and funky record.

This album is definitely an inconsistent one, but beautiful.

Prince at its best, great sound, great music.

Probably Randy Newman's best album, sail away, is an excellent record.

Hendrix was so much more than a guitar pioneer.

Its fast paced, energetic and heavy.

Solid album but not as Led Zeppelin IV.

The best Yardbirds album. Consistently good tunes and playing.

A psychedelic folk album of pure sound of acoustic instruments, strings and human voices.

Brilliant debut album by UB40.

the best funk rock album of all time.

Joe Sample's band, I like him.

The Strokes' debut album immediately perfects a garage rock sound with raw and gritty guitar-work.

One of the the classic Talking Heads' albums.

A very good album with some of his best work in years.

Great solid classic hard rock songs that are easy to remember.

Suede's moment of brilliance amid apparent chaos in the band.

The greatest improvised performance of all time.

One of Sinatra's finest recordings.

Morrissey's solo debut pretty much carried on where the Smiths left off.

The first rock and roll album that brought rock 'n' roll to the masses.

In terms of pop punk this is a good record.

Great hugely Bowie-influenced record.

A brillant brit-pop, including the hit "Alright".

This is the album to play to anyone who needs to understand the "Manchester sound."

Very good unknown album for all smooth/groove lovers.

Good but only on the dancefloor.

One of the best pop albums ever made.

While not quite as popular as paranoid, it is just as good, and a bit more experimental.

What an incredible gig!

Not my favorite of his, but really good.

Ahead of it's time. Great!

Nowhere near the level of Funeral, but better than Neon Bible.

It is one of her best albums.

Their best album obviously and just incredibly fun and innovative.

Just a great classic rock record with a great mix of new and old.

Lou Reeds best album for me.

A fantastic debut record that is amongst one of the greatest albums of the prog rock genre.

Probably John's poppiest and most accessible solo record.

Amazing jazz infused beats with next level rapping.

This album opens with two of the best rock songs ever recorded.

Unforgettable album, a britpop masterpiece, not recognized by many.

Beautiful voice, wonderful mixture of post-rock with folk and singer-songwriter music.

Fulfillingness first finale, always seems to be the forgotten album in that stunning run of LP's in the early/mid seventies, and in truth, it's not quite as brilliant as those other records.

This is an incredible accomplishment from The Smashing Pumpkins with them creating one of the greatest double albums of all time.

It’s rock, it’s punk, but it’s some of the most eclectic rock music.

Great playing by all the musicians, though.

Music played with passion, honesty and simplicity.

Very movie music like album, Very eclectic choice for the 1001 Albums.

This was a very solid comeback album for Muddy Waters

It has some of the greatest moments the Rolling Stones ever created making it an essential part of their discography.

A musically impressive album with fantastic storytelling that runs through the whole release.

Big voice, big country music.

My all time favorite blues album. It's got rhythm. It's got blues. It's got boogie.

Nina Simone is to my ears the greatest vocalist to have ever done it and this album is a prime example of that.

Nice grooves and very listenable.

A heavy rock/metal classic.

A political hip-hop classic.

This is very solid grunge album, probably the best in the genre.

A difficult album to get into but worth it. It's excellent.

Very good classic rock album, excellent tunes.

Brilliant album with a strong influence on punk and "Whiskey Woman" in it.

The best from Calexico! Love the atmosphere.

Excellent mix of traditional and modern instrumentation.

An amazing jazz funk record.

Incredible guitar playing mixed with infectious vocal melodies proves to be all that is needed to create a classic.

Great jazz album, perfect vibe and catchy melodys.

Great voice, gentle singing and on this album she shifted to more enigmatic sounding instrumentals.

Great iconic album, even 40 years after his first album he still makes great and relevant music in 2002, amazing.

A good hard rock record.

This is a much more bluesy attempt from the Rolling Stones who do a great job of mixing it into their classic style.

Still probably Weller's best solo record.

You can definitely see how influential this album was on hard rock and heavy metal in the 80s and even the 90s grunge, alt-rock and alt-metal genres.

Maybe the most important Salsa record ever made. A cooperation between two of the most important figures in the genre: Rubén Blades and Willie Colón.

This is an album that is as British as they come but also so much fun to listen to.

Nice 60s soul, good lyrics and theatral vocal in french.

I get the feeling she is influenced some by Patti Smith

This album has a classic sound and outstanding songwriting.

In Rainbows is a sonic masterpiece and one of the most sensational headphones albums I can reference.

One of the true pioneers of the electronic genre.

They'd reach their peak on Cosmo's Factory, but this album still has plenty of great tracks like green river and lodi.

Oasis-like 90's indie rock/Britpop akbum.

Very good album timeless hasn't lost its traditional music charm.

A great album early '70s British rock album that is strong from start to finish.

To me this is probably the best concept album ever created.

One of the better hip hop albums with enough pop sensibility.

This album is everything I found to be great in soul music.

Coming after the blockbuster success of 1977's Rumours, Tusk is a very weird yet highly interesting and experimental pop/rock album.

Halcyon Digest is an album you don’t want to end as it’s roots within dream pop and shoegaze mixed with ethereal indie guitar music send you into a beautiful trance.

One of the best records of one of the best recorded voices in music history.

The album has magnificent production with a sound like Coldplay and Sting.

Solid live record, great vocals and energy.

It is a general consensus among music critics that "Automatic for the People" is one of REM's best albums.

A solid album with some truly brilliant highlights.

This is another solid alt rock album by this band.

Strong vocals, songwriting, upbeat. pop culture.

Frank Ocean probably the artist of the decade for his great production and nice range of vocals.

ZZ Top acending to the top of their carreer with a mix between blues and rock. This album contains the top hits "Sharp Dressed Man", "Gimme All Your Lovin" and "Legs".

The best album ever, the quality, the videos, songs, everything on this album is a true masterpiece

One of the best albums from 1974 and Tangerine Dream´s best.

Ragged Glory is back to basics collaboration with Crazy Horse.

A couple of good tracks and then just some derivative blues.

A stepping stone to the even greater Back to Black.

The production is superb throughout the whole album.

One of the last great pop albums of the nineties.

This might be Springsteen's most consistent work with every song on here being good or better.

This is an album filled with rich and grand instrumentation.

It's got a lot of hip hop classics.

One of the best albums from the classic Fairport Convention line up.

Creedence project with it being full of great songs and brilliant instrumental work.

Perhaps the greatest new wave album of all time.

A fantastic record from Spiritualized that is packed full of beauty and quality.

Good union between the symphonic and the distorsions of metal, a nice experiment.

Best album of all time in it's genre.

Great psychedelic pop/rock and White Rabbit sounds like a masterpiece.

Very strong live album that is commonly recognized as one of the best of all time.

An iconic and memorable masterpiece.

A great album. Bitter Sweet Symphony may quite possibly be my favorite song of all time.

the most important classic album in music history.

Coldplay's masterpiece.

Cool jazz. Great groove running through this record.

This is one of Stevie Wonder's most consistently great records.

A great and cohesive record filled to the brim with beautiful tracks.

A good pop album is in dire need.

This album has this one great track which is Hotel California.

This is a great lyrical record with Morrissey penning some of his best lyrics across this release.

This album is sooo good, he took everything that was great on Swordfishtrombones and improved it.

One of the strongest debuts of all time.

One of the 90's best albums, with great songs and songwriting.

Arctic Monkeys make their debut with this album full of energy.

Marvellous album by the King of the Blues.

A classic jazz fusion album from the 1970's. great musicianship especially from Jaco Pastorius and Joe Zawinul.

A cornerstone record in any jazz collection.

One of the most cohesive and mind-blowing album listening experiences to listen to.

The jazz tendencies continue throughout the album and make for a great departure from his previously folk-inflected albums.

Great album, not a single bad track on the album.

A good album, gives indication of what is to come in coming years.

Willie Nelson is maybe the most important American artist of the last century.

Good album from the Beatles. Underrated by beatles fans.

Last album of trilogy and it’s another classic.

Great debut for Talking Heads, lyrics are insane and instrumentals are mostly great.

Fantastic alternative rock album!

nstrumentally, this is probably Frank Zappa's strongest release including everything he did with the Mother Of Invention.

An undeniably cool album, especially with Stan Getz on sax and João Gilberto singing.

Album of the year at the Grammys in 1989.

Good, entertaining rap album with creative use of samples it was ahead of its time.

Fantastic beats, Great flow, Great production.

I agree that it would be difficult for any artist to follow the excellent first 5-6 tracks. Each one is lightning in a bottle.

Cool funk psychedelic album!

Another great AC/DC album packed full of raw energy and power that is waiting to be enjoyed.

One of Curtis Mayfield's best albums.

The tragedy of so short a recording career and a lack of material is encapsulated in this, her best release.

It's true, EDM destroyed rock'n'roll.

An absolutely beautiful listen from start to finish. This album is one of those unique records that feels like it belongs in a genre/category of its own as it is that unique and special.

Muddy Waters was one of the originators of the Chicago blues, the hot, beefy, electrified blues.

The perfect dream pop album.

This is almost the ultimate border of creativity.

What makes this such a great album is the atmospherics produced.

Rock meets big band and it works. Excellent...

Influential concept album.

A spiritual experience from beginning to end, John Coltrane’s masterpiece.

This is as close to perfect noise rock ever got. The best Sonic Youth album.

A different and alternative approach to country music.

Superb jazz masterpiece!

Album of the year at the 1963 Grammys.

One of the most beautiful album of the 70's.

Perfection of the expression of the soul.

John Grant's debut solo album is one of the best albums of the last years.

This is one of the sexiest albums I've ever listened to.

Orchestral rock with bongos and horns, it's a special audio experience.

Still one of the greatest albums of all time.

Incredible production and fully realised ideas make this a must listen.

Good album, nice introduction to jazz rock.

Good album. top quality vocals in White Dress.

Solid album by the blues master.

Incredibly this debut album from Rock n Pioneer Little Richard released in 1957 would be his biggest hit and highest charting album.

Magnificent singing, the best Elton album and his top songs are on here.

It's a collage of everything Beck ever experienced and made his own thing.

ISteely Dan Band's magnific debut album.

Before Nirvana, there was Pixies, and their breakthrough album Doolittle would inspire everyone that picked up a guitar, especially the rock bands of the 90s, like Nirvana, Radiohead, Weezer, Pavement.

This is a fantastic album, full of beauty, considerations of mortality.

This is a great record! Classic songwriting and Ella's vocals make this one of the greatest albums of the era.

This is their most expansive and experimental album The Beatles have ever created.

One of Neil Young’s most Neil Young albums.

Fantastic timeless rap/rock fusion album.

Most of the songs here have nice, catchy melodies and quite good lyrics.

The beginning of something very special, although overall this isn't a particularly special album.

One of those albums you can put on any time and will always sound right.

A very amusing record that works better as a concept than a showcase for individual songs.

The best Cream album, sounds very influential.

This is a composition of true musical genius that you fall in love with the more times you listen to it.

Title track is absolutely amazing, the pinnacle of britpop.

Solid album, the songs are brilliantly written.

Tortoise puts out music that is both timeless and contemporary.

One of the great rock/soul albums.

An album of many sides and genres mixed well.

Pretty cut and dry 80's alt-pop.

One of the top 5 electronic albums.

This album blends a lot of influences from rock to soul.

Arcade Fire are just the masters of Indie Rock Music.

One of the great r'n'b albums.

Lorde cements herself at the top of modern day pop with this album.

One of the greatest and most important albums of all time.

Really enjoyed listening to this album.

One of the greatest concept albums of all time.

This album is amazing, it perfectly balances pop and art side of Kate Bush.

A very good record which features a pretty interesting sound for U2.

Released in 1996 at the zenith of Brit-Pop mania Manic Street Preachers were seemingly the ugly buck toothed cousins of the poster-boys Oasis and Blur.

This isn't Queen's most consistent record but it definitely has some of their greatest ever songs.

Overall a very consistent album, one of the best of Springsteen's catalog.

The best punk album ever made.

Best neotango album.

One of the greatest thrash albums ever released hands down.

Joan Armatrading is a great unknown to me and I think for most people.

An incredibly consistent yet varied album musically.

Winner of the album of the year at the Grammys in 1970.

It's really fun funk/new wave. Genius of Love is an absolute classic, one of the best dance songs ever.

This is a pretty great album.

A wonderful album full of folk rock! Bob Dylan at his best right here.

An album of absolute supremeness.

Its alright by Kanye standards, which means a really good album by normal standards.

This album is recognised as the first and the best double album in rock music history.

Amazing album that redefined pop at the time!

Rich layers of instrumention, enjoyable if not all that impressive.

Something between punk rock and new wave.

Classic album of the 80s. Depeche Mode´s best album of the 80s, just one step behind to their masterpiece Violator (1990).

Fully formed “debut” this is one of my favorite albums Bob Marley was associated with The Wailers include Bunny Wailer & Peter Tosh.

Slick, pretty and very mellow, a fine record.

In Top 10 best albuns ever.

Impressing fusion of western music with south african music makes of this album unique experience.

Perfect musical balance to be one of the best folk rock albums ever.

Quiet life, is a brilliant combination of glam rock, new romanticism, and, electro pop, and still sounds excellent today.

An electric debut album that captures all the quality of the group from the vocal to the drum work to the outstanding guitar playing.